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Historical person
1743–1826
Thomas Jefferson was an American revolutionary statesman, principal author of the Declaration of Independence and third president. His administration completed the Louisiana Purchase, but his political language of liberty existed alongside lifelong slaveholding and territorial expansion.
In Jeff Shaara’s Rise to Rebellion, as taxation, punishment and colonial organisation harden opposing positions, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and other leaders move towards independence.
In non-fiction, Thomas Jefferson is discussed in Gore Vidal’s Inventing a Nation. In Gore Vidal’s Inventing a Nation, in this work of political history, Gore Vidal examines the revolutionary generation through George Washington, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, while also considering Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton and James Madison.
Historical context
Series
Jeff Shaara’s two-volume American Revolution sequence follows the colonies from the Boston Massacre and political resistance of the early 1770s through the British surrender at Yorktown. Rise to Rebellion concentrates on the transformation of lawyers, merchants and provincial leaders into revolutionaries; The Glorious Cause follows the Continental Army…
All books in this series
Non Fiction
Biographies, histories and other non-fiction are listed separately from the historical novels above.
